Sunday, February 12, 2017

We are up and running!

I'm delighted to say we started the farm back up February 1st. Ahhh, feels so good. With the new greenhouse operating, we were able to plant spinach, kale, chard, lettuce and mustard greens. Five days later, the spinach already germinated. We're also experimenting with Johnny Jump-Ups in mini pots and getting the Bupleurum going as well.

There's about 2000 tulip and brodeia bulbs coming up as well. Unfortunately the moles have decided they make a great snack, so the Jaws of Death traps have had to come out. Always hate when that happens. The two middle rows are taking a break from planting for a few months and have a good layer of cardboard and aged horse manure on top. The tarp speeds up decomposing and the earthworms love it!

Chad is busy broadforking all the beds before we add soil amendments and get ready for transplanting, which will be sometime in March. Expecting spinach and salad mix ready to harvest by April.